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A professor of prehistory and archaeology at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain, Sebastián Celestino (“Sacred Precincts: A Tartessian Sanctuary in Ancient Spain”) is an expert on the Late Bronze Age and the oriental colonization of the Iberian Peninsula. He is also a research scholar with the Instituto de Arqueología del Consejo Superior de Centro de Investigaciones Científicas and director of the Cancho Roano Research Project. Co-author Carolina López-Ruiz is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago. She specializes in Greek and Northwest Semitic languages and cultures.

Despoina Tsiafakis (“Mankillers: Sirens, Sphinxes and Gorgons in Greek Art”) is a research scholar with the Cultural and Educational Technologies Institute in Xanthi, Greece, and a consultant to the J. Paul Getty Museum. She is the author of numerous publications on ancient Greek art and architecture.

Trained as a modernist, Harry Rand (“The Mystery of Theoderic’s Tomb Solved!”) is Senior Curator of Cultural History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and a recent recipient of a Getty Foundation Curatorial Fellowship. Rand has published on ancient Ur, Old Testament aesthetics, Vermeer, the origin of the Rumpelstiltskin story, Edouard Manet, Arshile Gorky and Friedensreich Hundertwasser, among other subjects.

A professor of prehistory and archaeology at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain, Sebastián Celestino (“Sacred Precincts: A Tartessian Sanctuary in Ancient Spain”) is an expert on the Late Bronze Age and the oriental colonization of the Iberian Peninsula. He is also a research scholar with the Instituto de Arqueología del Consejo Superior de Centro de Investigaciones Científicas and director of the Cancho Roano Research Project. Co-author Carolina López-Ruiz is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago. She specializes in Greek and Northwest Semitic languages and cultures. Despoina Tsiafakis (“Mankillers: Sirens, Sphinxes and Gorgons in Greek Art”) is […]